P.K. Subban may have returned to Montreal to play against his former team, but he didn't waste the opportunity to take a shot at the Canadiens' organization as well.

Before the game Saturday, the Predators defenseman spoke with Nick Kypreos for an interview aired during the pregame of Hockey Night in Canada and addressed what he said he believes makes playing in Montreal so difficult.

"I think that the one thing that’s tough about Montreal, and I tell people this all the time, what makes it so hard to win there is that regardless of what anybody says, media and the community have an influence on the team," Subban said.

Subban said that the amount of attention on Montreal players makes it harder on them and insinuated that the Canadiens' organization wasn't strong enough or managed well enough to keep the distractions and pressure off of its players.

"I think that it takes a very, very strong organization and management to manage that," Subban said. "It has to be managed properly because when that starts to creep in, it’s tough. That’s not on the players to manage. I think that needs to be managed by the organization and that has to be the strongest part of that organization for the team to be successful."

When asked if there was a specific time when his relationship with the organization started to falter, Subban didn't point out one moment, but described it as an on-going tumultuous time.

"There were so many different moments where there was turmoil or there was some sort of storyline," Subban told Kypreos . "But most of the time to be honest with you, I just blocked it out. I hate to say I didn’t care, but the reality was tomorrow I have a game. I don’t have time to read papers and headlines, I’m just going to go out and play better and that’s what I did most of the time I was there and that’s why the critics had to kind of shut up."

The Canadiens traded Subban to the Predators for defenseman Shea Weber in a blockbuster one-for-one swap in June 2016. Nashville reached the Stanley Cup in Subban's first season, and are currently in first place in its division. Weber has missed 29 of the Canadiens 55 games this season due to a foot injury.

Subban said that he had no feelings of vengeance toward Montreal specifically, but wanted to prove that he was a difference maker for Nashville.

"I knew that if I came into Nashville with the right mentality and the right mindset that I could help the team," Subban said. "For me, when I look at the league, I said it doesn’t matter if it’s Montreal or another team, we want to rip them apart."